Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-13

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always does toward sunset Indeed, all that
remained of it were few strictly local and
miniature whirlwinds which would suddenly
spring up on the road itself, and twist and
twirl fiercelv round, raising mighty column
of dust fifty feet or more into the air, where
it hung long after the cause of it passed, and
then slowly dissolved as its particles floated
to the earth.
Coming along the road. in the immediate
track of one of these desultory and incXplic
able WhirlwindS, was a man ON horseback.
The man looked limp and dirty, and the
horse lmNrr and drticr. The hot wind had
taken all the bones out of them. a the kaliirs
say, which was not very much to he wondered
at, seeing that they had lcGn iourneying
through it for the last four hours, without
off sadding. Suddenly the whirwnd, which
had been travelling along pretty smartly,
halted, and the dust, after turning round
few times in the air like dying top, slowly
began to dissolve i'll the accustomed fashion.
The man on the horse halteJ. too, and con-
templated it in an absent kind of way.
dts just like a mans life" he said aloud to
his horse, coming from nobody knows where,
nobody knows why, and making a little
column of dust on the worlds highway, and
then passing away and leaving the dust to
fall to the ground again. and be trodden
under foot and forgotten"
The speaker, stout, well set up, rather ugly
man, apparently on the wrong side of 80, with
pleasant blue eyes and n reddish, peaked
beard, laughed a little at his own sententious
reflection, and then gave his jaded horse a
tap with the sjambock in his hand
"Come on Besbok," he said, "or we shall
never get to old Crofts place tonight. By
IT,- I.g1tg t1,r. "
and he pointed with his whip to little rutty
track that turned from the Wakkerstroom
main road and stretched away toward
curious, isolated hill with large fiat top, that
rose out of the rolling plain some four miles
to the right "The old Boer said the second
turn" he went on still talking to himself,
"but perhaps he lied. l am told tha5
some of them think it good joke TO send
an Englishman a few miles wrong. Let's
see, they said the place was under the lee of a
table topped hill, about half an hours ride
from the main road, and that is table
topped hill, so think will try it. Come on,
Blesbok," and he put the tired nag into
sort of cripple" or ambling canter, much
affected by South African horses.
"Life is queer thing" reflected Capt.
John Mel to himself as he slowly cantered
along. "Now here am /, at the age of
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